The nurse reefers to the traditional clinical signs of death as:
1. Brain death.
2. Heart–lung death.
3. Cerebral death.
4. Clinical death.
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Rationale: The traditional signs of death are not referred to as brain death.
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a. Rinsing the mouth with warm water b. Sipping carbonated drinks c. Sucking on occasional ice chips d. Limiting tooth brushing to once per day
What is a construct?
a. The abstract, logical structure of meaning b. A concept at a high level of abstraction with a very general meaning c. An integrated set of defined concepts, existence statements, and relational statements that can be used to describe, explain, predict, or control that phenomenon d. A term that abstractly describes and names an object, a phenomenon, or an idea, thus providing it with a separate identity or meaning
The nurse manager in a hospital with a large immigrant population is planning an in-service
Aware of how ethnocentrism affects nursing care, the nurse manager includes the statement, "The belief that one's own values and beliefs are the only or the best values: 1. "Means that newcomers to the United States should adopt the norms and values of the country." 2. "Can create barriers to communication through misunderstanding." 3. "Leads to an expectation that all clients will exhibit pain the same way." 4. "Improves the quality of care provided to culturally diverse patient bases."
The patient is experiencing late decelerations. The nurse understands that this is caused by:
1. Uteroplacental insufficiency 2. Umbilical cord compression 3. Fetal head compression 4. Fetal cardiac abnormality